Join this series of art and design activities led by some of Britain’s most inspiring creators.
Delving into the futures we might wish for (or hope to avoid), the sessions explore how the experience of imaginative engagement might help society address global challenges, such as climate care. Each session offers the chance to follow alternative paths and each process will be different from the last.
Sign up to participate in the events and follow-up research. Activities are free, but groups will be small and so places are limited.
You are invited to sign up to more than one event and to share your feedback with Sussex researchers as part of understanding the opportunities that these kinds of playful encounters provide.
With thanks to UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council for support and the Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, for hosting, organised by Ann Light. (More information on the related research project can be requested from ann.light[at]sussex.ac.uk.)
| Event | Leader | Theme | Link |
| Our Place, No Place – table top game 16th April at 2pm, SHL | David Blandy, Artist | “Explore the complexities of a better future through playing David Blandy’s tabletop roleplay game “Our Place, No Place”, where we imagine a better world together, and roleplay living a year in the space we have created. We will draw a map together, establishing our terrain through defining different aspects of the space, then each become a character there. The game then offers a series of local events to react to, and a picture of living community will emerge through our play.” | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/playing-the-future-tickets-1263772661049 |
| story.glitch: a practice-led performance research project May 14th at 2.30pm, SHL | Zoe Svendsen, Metis Arts | Inspired by accounts of refugees fleeing across Europe during WWII, this demo interactive experience explores how hostile bureaucratic systems shape and distort lives then, now, and in our coming climate-stressed futures. | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transit-a-practice-led-performance-research-project-tickets-1279564645299 |
| Interspecies Meditation -participatory more-than-human event May 30th at 2.30pm, SHL | Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield | Interspecies Meditation and reflections on more-than-human participatory governance: “the more fascinating, strange and exciting it is to our inner children, the harder we’ll fight for it.” | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interspecies-meditation-tickets-1279587995139 |
| The Strategy Room – interactive event about climate decisions 4th June at 11.30, SHL | Dan Barnard Fast Familiar | “In The Strategy Room, the characters speak about the net zero policies that have happened in their versions of the future in terms of how they have affected their lives and the lives of people they care about.” | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-strategy-room-tickets-1257921399769 |
| Fashion Fictions -workshop 16th July, SHL | Amy Twigger-Holroyd, Nottingham Trent University | “As a form of activism, the initiative aims to contribute to the emergent post-growth fashion movement – which seeks a fashion system that fully acknowledges the Earth’s capacity to support life – by supporting people to imagine alternative ways of living with clothes and take action to bring them into being.” | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fashion-fictions-tickets-1279606309919 |